[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chep

[mayqel qunenoS]

SuStel:
> It is using pa' as a non-subject, non-object noun placed before the OVS structure, and
> Dab here has no object: some years ago, thereabouts, inhabitants inhabited (in general).
> This is not actually ungrammatical, just a bit odd.

This confuses me a little; is it legal to have an unmarked noun before the OVS ?

And something else.. Would you accept as grammatically correct the
{pa' vIparHa'} for "I like the there" ? Can the {pa'} (in its meaning
as "there") be used as an object ?

qunnoq


On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:03 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 7/7/2017 12:00 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
>
> [op ben pa' Dab ngan]
>
> On Jul 7, 2017, at 11:16 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>
> I can think of three possibilities:
>
>
> A fourth occurred to me. Perhaps the English "lands" influenced the Klingon
> rendition, and {Dab} is intended to have a plural object. {...pa' [yermey]
> Dab ngan[pu']...}
>
> Or maybe pa' itself is to be interpreted as plural: thereaboutses.
>
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